A row over the site where 22 modular houses are being built in Ballymun should be resolved tomorrow.
Protestors stopped work on the site at Balbutcher Lane in Poppintree last week for over a day.
They were members of a housing group who had permission to build 40 houses on the site.
Many of them had invested five thousand euro each during the planning process and are now looking for that money back from Dublin City Council.
A meeting between officials and the group took place today and it’s hoped the situation could be sorted by tomorrow.
Local rep Noeleen Reilly says the council need to listen to their concerns:
“To qualify for that scheme at the time, you had to be a low income family so those people just didn’t have five grand lying around in their bank account. I think we need to do more to appease them and we certainly need to address their concerns about ever getting that money back”.
It comes as one housing organisation says modular homes could be more than just a short term solution to the homeless crisis.
Donal McManus is chief executive of the Irish Council for social housing.
“Many of us have lived overseas in modular housing and it’s seen as a long term housing solution not purely a short-term solution for any one category”.
Councillors have also been told that the tendering process for the next phase of modular homes, 131 units, will begin in December.
